SEOUL - A Korean Air passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked runway after landing at Seoul's international airport, injuring at least 18 people.

France

PARIS - Paul Flamand, the co-founder of one of the biggest French publishing houses, Editions du Seuil, died Tuesday at 89.

Russia

MOSCOW - Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov said the government would withhold cash from coal-mining industries in any region where unpaid miners were blockading rail lines.

Turkey

ANKARA - A lawyer for former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and her businessman husband said a corruption investigation into the couple had no foundation.

Vietnam

HANOI - The government angrily denied a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine that alleged a senior member of the elite Communist Party Politburo was being investigated for corruption.

Myanmar

YANGON - Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi demanded that the military government remove its guards from the grounds of her Yangon residence, but the authorities have refused, opposition officials said.

China

HONG KONG - Dissidents are prepared to stage protest marches to urge the immediate release of three detained political activists, a Hong Kong human rights group said.

Indonesia

SUKAMELANG - Armed forces commander Gen. Wiranto donned a farmer's hat on Thursday and harvested soybeans with a scythe in a plantation surrounded by the cool green rice fields of West Java.